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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: This has been a recurring plague. I know the Minister is eager to get her teeth into this matter and I anticipate that she will address it. From a legal perspective, the critical aspect of any analysis is the type of contract engaged in and the classification of it. That is important because when people are employed as ordinary employees, they attract the full corpus of legislative...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I also oppose the section and agree with Deputy O'Dea. There are lots of employers out there, some of whom are very small and we must take a balanced view on this. Deputy Joan Collins is correct in pointing out that if some of the other amendments had been accepted, we certainly would be wholeheartedly opposing section 9. The problem, when one starts introducing criminal sanctions, is that...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: Any proposed amendment must arise from discussion here-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: The Minister did say that she would take the criminal offence aspect out if we insisted that employees be provided with the information on day one.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 20: In page 10, to delete “so,” in line 32 down to and including line 37, and in page 11, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute “so.”. This amends section 18 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, which originally dealt with zero-hour contracts. At least, it tried to. The amendment is designed to ensure a minimum number of working...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: Yes.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 31: In page 13, to delete lines 24 to 26 and substitute the following: “(7) An employee placed on a weekly band of working hours shall work hours the average of which shall fall within that band until such time as a further review of hours determines that the employee concerned should be placed on a different band of working hours.”. This amendment...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I am quite happy to accept the 12 months. The suggestion of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and it members had been 13 months. I am quite happy to accept that. On my other amendment, it is obviously not the intention to place people in a lesser position than they would be in under the legislation without the amendment. I would like to look at that and see what implications it might...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: Any good employer would implement this provision. It does not have to be part of legislation. There is the existing corpus of employees. Employers know who they are and the hours they work. As Deputy Clare Daly said, the extra hours are critical for those who need them to survive. It is not a matter of taking out a mortgage or anything else but of putting bread on the table. It is so...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I also have an amendment. This exercised everybody's attention on Second Stage. The Minister has made some progress on the bands and has explained her rationale. The Minister said we can bring in something that will apply to every employee other than the cohort in precarious employment who are vulnerable and so on. One can understand that rationale but the Minister could...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: Amendment No. 47 is in my name. Deputy O'Dea moved a similar amendment earlier on. The penalisation measures need to be strengthened by the insertion of the amendment. I am easy about the other amendments in the group. We are concerned at the prospect of a reduction in hours being used as a weapon against an employee who may, for example, have taken a case against an employer to the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 47: In page 15, line 24 to delete "intimidation."." and substitute the following: "intimidation. (6) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5), where — (a) an employee has made a complaint under the Workplace Relations Act 2015 of a failure to comply with section 18A, and (b) the hours of work of the employee are subsequently reduced by the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: It is mad.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: It is pure "Lannigan's Ball".

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: We know exactly what we are voting for.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Improvement Schemes (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 548. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if, in the context of the allocation of moneys by his Department for accommodation roads under the road improvement scheme, he will ring-fence additional moneys and special allocations to offshore islands, which incur additional costs to carry out such works with plant materials and so on and, further, have significantly more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I am a strong supporter of the BDGP. It has helped to identify superior and inferior animals at an early stage and no one can gainsay that. It is extremely important in that context. The aggregation of statistics over a period with regard to genetic merit and evaluation of those is surely the best way to identify or point towards the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the ICBF for its statement, and it has furnished us with a huge volume of information. The witnesses heard the earlier presentation from the Irish Charolais Cattle Society, ICCS. It is like the seventh secret of Fatima trying to get information out of the ICBF. It has furnished us with a lot of information and all of the key metrics on the impact of the beef data genomics programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: -----did not want it there either. I thought the Vice Chairman would remember that. I remain as steadfast in support of the ICSA today as I was then. I want to know if it is appropriate that only one person represents 15 different breed societies when one AI company has six directors on the board. That is a little lopsided from any perspective. I support the idea of having a federation...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: I am glad to have the opportunity, on behalf of the Labour Party, to contribute to this debate, which centres on the implementation of SI 89 of 2018, the European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations, which appears to supersede SI 125 of 2016 which was signed into law on 1 March 2016 by the predecessor of the current Minister. There has been a significant amount of...